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Old January 26th 19, 08:02 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Jonathon May
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Default 1920's Gliding Footage

At 19:27 26 January 2019, Werner Schmidt wrote:
Jonathan St. Cloud wrote 01.26.19 at 20:13:

- One must admire the tenacity of mankind. When watching a

man get tossed
from an ice boat at 50 MPH or watching another man get tossed

to his death
the thought is "Must invent way to secure pink flesh to vehicle",

not "I
won't do that again". Wasn't the helmet invented the same

way?

wasn't the helmet invented for sword fighting?

However, someone didn't think "I won't do that again", so you

are right
.... ;-)

Regards

Werner

A lot of the clips show excessive use of elevator, full pos to full
neg in less than a couple of seconds.